Profile

Nationality: German Date of Birth: 29.05.1978
Place of Birth: Darmstadt, Germany
Language Skills: German (native), English (fluent)

Recent

06/09 – today

Technical Director at „nacamar GmbH“

Selected Projects

ZDF-mediathek – project manager operating the channel`s on demand service. Concept and setup
of the platforms for different kinds of delivery, account managing and reporting of the monthly KPIs,
responsible for an expansion meeting the demand to ensure the operation.

Setup of a high performance data aggregation platform, including accounting and datawarehouse:
project manager, conception and setup of platforms processing log data and server data in real time (Big Data),
focus on scaling and stability, use of Hadoop as processing cluster, processing of up to 40 mio datasets a day.

Development and extension of nacamar´s own delivery technologies used for HbbTV: project manager and main developer of this technology,
development of delivery technologies according to the HbbTV standards 1.1 and 1.5.

Miscellaneous

Disciplinary responsibility for up to 10 employees

Head of Technical Operations, Technical Services and Research & Development

Past

09/05 – 03/10

Managing Director and Head of Development at „weiß&schmidt“

Selected Projects

Implementation of "Liquid Scatter Space`s" first version for Liquiverse GmbH until 2008,
including the development of new and visionary UI-components. These resulted in a fundamentally new
access to huge amounts of data for data mining, made possible through innovative user interfaces.
For more information visit Liquiverse.
Technology used: Java, especially Java Swing

The project “Sound of the Squares” (comissioned by the city marketing of Mannheim) was realised in the
course of the celebrations of Mannheim´s 400th anniversary in 2008. weiß&schmidt´s conception and
realisation of the software sequencer was awarded the Yellow Pencil Award 2008 by the British
artdirectors´ association D&AD in the section environmental design.
Technology used: MaxMSP and Java

Digital Video und Audio Signal Matrix for Tiscali Business GmbH. This platform was half-automated and gave
control over live signal aquisition and playout of digital video signals. Therefore, it was possible to receive diverse
satellite feeds as well as to redirect those signals to different delivered video streams. The switching could be done manually
or automated on the basis of previously scheduled events.
Technology used: Java, Java Server Faces, weiß&schmidt's libraries for av-component control for Crest, Extron etc.

Audio and Video Stream Monitoring Platform for the measurement of Quality of Service respectively Quality of Experience for the streaming service provider Tiscali Business GmbH.
Technology used: Java, C#, Windows Media Framework, Actionscript 3.0; based on monitoring solution Nagios.

Miscellaneous

Disciplinary responsibility for up to 3 employees

Object oriented software development in the area of data visualization